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Company A prostrated Japan holds her head high The Franco-Canadian team visits plants in Veneto The good news from our Japanese other nation in the world. We know the The joint teams of French distributors friends at Orient is that they are safe and mettle of the Rising Sun and send them FMI and Canadian Georges et Phina DERAPAGE collections. They found out well. The country has reacted resolutely our best wishes for a speedy recovery. were keen to learn from their visit to the where and how designer eyewear is born and bravely to a natural calamity that And special greetings to Yoshi and Ma- eyewear factories of Venetia that make and bred at the cutting edge of Made in would have wiped the floor with any saomi. the key models of the VANNI and Italy invention.
Company A gamut of colours for the models on the VANNI website As of March every model in the VANNI VANNI communicates in blue The year that has just got under way has brought VANNI a new set of blue bro- Autofocus: the new edition of the competition collection can be viewed on the website chures, the colour that celebrates Italy s The young art competition promoted by www.vanniocchiali.com in all the colour 150th anniversary. Another novelty is VANNI is running up to its third edition. all artistic description to come out of the range available - a novelty that makes the handy tallboy window display case, At the end of April candidates will learn woodwork and give rein to their fresh for swift, accurate and complete consul- again in blue, completing the kit for our the rules for presenting their projects. An creative inspiration: tation. sales outlets. opportunity for youthful Italian talent of www.vanniocchiali.com
INTERNATIONAL PRESS REVIEW December 2010 - February 2010 To see the complete press review visit www.nicodesign.it Updates to the website www.nicodesign.it ITALY B2 eyes Magazine February 2011 pag. 34 Nico GERMANY Optic und vision February 2011 pag. 43 VANNI - Flame HONG KONG VMagazine January 2011 pag. 163 VANNI - Meccano ITALY P.O. February 2010 pag. 37 VANNI - Meccano3
Editorial Signs of a rebound but we can t slacken up by Giovanni Vitaloni Two years on the go without a breather of the end of 2010 is that it marked the ing this let-up as a sign that the worst is this will-o -the-wisp called a market until now. The turnout at MIDO and New long-awaited inversion of trend after a past and we re getting our heads above does not live by novelty alone. There is York was reassuring and I hope the new dramatic 2008-2009. We ve stopped water. 2011 is our chance to consoli- more to keeping and boosting business contacts we made will be confirming going down: the Italian market, for date the market at home and abroad. than serving up new collections every in the new few days. Our impression example, is on the mend. We are tak- One certainty has slowly emerged: that six months. One needs to dig deep with customers, snap up opportunities dangled by opticians who have chosen to leave the common herd and reward a design product like our own. At Nico-design we ve come up with a formula to boost growth - and we re firm believers in it. We re working the Italian market by initiatives targeting the best independent opticians - a project
Editorial we ve called T occhi di design (a pun: design eyewear manufacturers (mean- Italy (have done Turin, Milan and Rome) gies for our creative products in a market something like I wear design ). These are ing us and LA srl) outside the traditional trying to get the concrete personal touch dominated by eyewear multinationals, day-long sessions where opticians get to calendar of tradefairs which still remain a with clients we want as collaborators, de- big-time marketing and flashy logos. know and exchange notes with us Turin solid fixture. We re taking T occhi round vising joint sales and promotions strate- We talk eyewear for a whole day and hire
Editorial a market analyst to help us chew over the festivals, and hitching communications to catch on in other countries as well. But product competitiveness in terms of price situation and the prospects for business. the world of contemporary art by special one can t afford to let one s guard down, as well as style. The focal point is the Nico-design gives its customers material projects. Is T occhi a model we could that s for sure. Needless to say, it s not glasses - ever better, ever more attractive. help in putting on trunk shows, vintage take abroad? Why not? the formula might just marketing: we re also working on That s our daily mission.
Fairs and Events April 2011 - July 2011 01/03 April 2011 Optika Hungary - Tihany - Hungary 09/11 April 2011 Optrafair - Birgmingham - UK 24/26 May 2011 Vision-x - Dubai - United Arab Emirates 9/11 July 2011 Odmafair - Sydney - Australia VANNI splashes out at Brno in February Slovakia and the Czech Republic make Brno their top tradefair and the VANNI and DERAPAGE stand was manned by distributors Danae Vision. To display the latest novelties they splashed the whole space in VANNI graphics. Dortmund en route for Munich and a fresh start in Germany After kicking off the tradefair year at Dortmund with OPTItrend as a venue for Germany west, we then flew down to Munich. OPTI Munchen was once again wreathed in snow but, despite the rigours of a Bavarian January, the turnout of opticians was good, and so was the level of interest in the new VANNI and DERAPAGE collections which hadn t hit that fair for two years. German manufacturers are taking Munich as the place to show off what s new. It s becoming an important venue not just for eastern Europe but for the international market.
Fairs and Events MIDO 2011, already with an eye on next year The highspot was the barrage of television TV and newspaper visibility to a spare The MIDO organizers were cock-a- One more day would have been useful, cameras filing past the stand to feature little reproduction of the historic model hoop at the substantial upturn in visitor especially for Italian opticians. our Cavour stunt: a pair of VANNIs that once adorned the august nose of a attendance. We too welcomed the influx, There was lively discussion of dates in a case draped in patriotic ribbons Piedmontese gentleman who happened though we miss the fourth working day. for MIDO 2012. Our view is that for the to celebrate Italy s 150 years since to unite the country (you can see the The fair finished on the Sunday evening export sector March is a good period, but unification. This brought record national videos on: www.raitv.it) with customers still sitting round the table. to suit the Italian market the fair ought
Fairs and Events We celebrate our 10th year attending New York to slide to late April. We re on the MIDO A new setting, the traditional Gallery Administrative Board as advisors, so we ll moved to a pleasingly clean pavilion next customers visited the VANNI and be putting in a plug for a re-think of dates and extending the salon at least till the Monday morning. door to the Underground: no doubt this helped the good attendance at Vision Expo East 2011. Many US and Canadian DERAPAGE stand, as well as possible contacts for central and south America. And Nico-design had its ten-year party. Mission to Korea Nico-design has arranged a mission to South Korea, prospecting for new contacts. After years in the wilderness, South Korea has come into her own and is showing an acute palate in terms of trend, taste and European style. New commercial agreements will stem from the visit and place VANNI and DERAPAGE in the country s best eyewear shops, in addition to the Seoul Eyedesign store run by Mr. Park.
Flash News A creative eyewear blog Patriotic parade VANNI has been celebrating Italian Unity and parading its Cavour-style spectacles. mento: Camillo Benso Count of Cavour. Inaugurating the Valentina Daga show Art and more art for VANNI: the young www.eyestylist.com: add this website link to your bookmarks. The new blog devoted to designer eyewear is a lure for A tribute to the glasses that made Italian history, perched on the Piedmontese nose that best represented the Risorgi- VANNI s Cavour model paraded round Turin on Tricolour Night which opened the 150th anniversary of Unification. artist from Sassari who reached the final round of Autofocus inaugurated her exhibition. the enthusiast, managed with a connoisseur s love and savoir faire around a highly creative accessory. Curated and animated by veteran sector journalists Clodagh Norton and Joan Grady, it puts out monthly reviews of sun and prescription design glasses, along with knowhow about technology and style. But don t expect to find Tom, Dick and Harry: eyestylist only notices quality products.
Network DERAPAGE on show in New York The fashion and eyewear parade promot- Ottica Ing. Benedetto has an eye for art For the second year running Ottica Ing. A VANNI model makes the final at Birmingham s Frames of 2011 VANNI figures in the Finnish press Photos and descriptions of the latest VANNIs in Finland s second newspaper, ed by Studio Optyx, of Saint Louis was a Benedetto from Settimo Torinese has At OPTRA, Britain s Birmingham tradefair, lltasanomat, to mark the end of MIDO. great success. The venue: Carlton Hotel espoused VANNI s project on young art the VANNI model Suede took second The contact came from the MIDO press (Millesime Restaurant), Madison Avenue, and is exhibiting competition-winner prize for trendiness. Watch out for pic- office. Good publicity and good busi- New York. Fashion, eyewear and glam- Giulia Bonora s works on its premises. tures of the award ceremony once the ness therefore for our Suomen distribu- our galore. This art craze is catching! English fair finishes (on from 9-11 April). tors, El Oel.